Response to Chapter 1: Imagining a Digital Writing Workshop

        Throughout Chapter 1 of Troy Hicks' book, The Digital Writing Workshop, he explains the importance of "integrating the core principles of the writing workshop with the emerging technologies for writing" (5).  Rather than integrating old theories about writing and applying them to new technologies, Hicks suggests that we have to approach the writing process in a new way.  The way that people express themselves through digital writing is different and we have to have principles that accommodate that difference.  By using strategies that we know work, and tweaking them to fit the digital age teachers can begin to incorporate digital writing into their English class rooms.
       I do agree with Hicks that technology is changing and as teachers we have to keep up with that technology.  I like how he frames the five core principles of writing and then incorporates technology into those principles.  After reading Chapter 1, I feel that this book is going to help me better understand technology and how to use it in my English class room.

Megan Nier